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Music composer Jatin-Lalit’s missing sister's skull found

Police discovered a skull of an unidentified body upon at
the marshlands near Delhi Public School (DPS) in Nerul (West) on Sunday and
geologist Michael John Oates stumbled upon the skull and finally the owner of
the skull was identified and it was none other than Sandhya Singh, sister of
renowned music-composer duo Jatin-Lalit and yesteryear actresses Vijayta Pandit
and Sulakshana Pandit who was missing since December 13th.

The police have also recovered a salwar kameez, a gold chain
and a rudraksh near the skull, after digging at the spot. The family was
informed and later they identified these items as Sandhya’s belongings.

Sandhya went to deposit her jewellery at a bank in Nerul on December 13th
and since then she was missing. She used to stay with her husband, central
excise commissioner Jayprakash Singh, in Vashi.

“Oates, who had come for the Mumbai Bird Race, returned from Karnala Bird
Sanctuary and was bird watching at Palm
Beach, when he found the skull,” said SPI Suresh Vedak
of NRI police station, Navi Mumbai.

“He took pictures of it and informed us. We immediately checked all the
complaints for missing persons and informed the families of missing victims
about the discovery of a skull,” said Vedak.

The NRI police, with help from a team sent by the Kalina
Forensic laboratory, dug up the spot and found a gold chain, a rudraksh bead,
and a wig. “Firstly, a skull and seven bones were found at the spot. We showed
these objects and also a salwar kameez to the family members and they have
identified them as Sandhya’s belongings. The family also identified the skull
as Sandhya’s by the presence of a tooth that was fitted with a cap,” said
Vedak.

The police will now send the remains to the anatomy department at J J Hospital
and to the Kalina laboratory for further information as when she was killed.
“The missing complaint was registered at Nerul police station, so we will
transfer the case to them for further investigations,” said Vedak.

Music composer Lalit said, “If the police would have taken our missing
complaint seriously, they could have saved our sister, who is no more with us.”

Sandhya has a great passion for jewelry and police suspects that Sandhya was
murdered due to heavy jewellery. On the day she went missing, she was wearing
jewellery worth about Rs 20 lakh.

The family and Nerul police had declared a reward of
Rs 50,000 to anyone who could provide information about Sandhya but destiny has
stored something else.